Question: There are many all-Russian veteran organizations in the country. Why is it necessary to establish another one, an all-Russian public organization of veterans of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (APOVAMRF)? Moiseev: All veteran organizations operating in Russia

President Dmitri Medvedev announced on August 26 that Russia has recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Experts say that the Russian-Georgian conflict marks the final stage in the disintegration of the Yalta-Potsdam world order, thus opening up opportunities

CHELYABINSK, September 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Kazakhstan launched the first stage of a strategic exercise in the Chelyabinsk Region in Russia's Urals on Monday, the Ground Forces' press service said. The first stage of the drills, named Center-2008,

MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russia believes an international police force should be deployed in South Ossetia to prevent further Georgian attacks, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday. "It would make sense to deploy an international police presence in

MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russia may proceed with plans to sell advanced S-300 air defense systems to Iran under a secret contract believed to have been signed in 2005, a Russian analyst said on Monday. (Russian mobile surface-to-air

MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree on sending a Russian military contingent to Chad and the neighboring Central African Republic in support of a UN mission in the region, the Kremlin said

MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) - Several thousand people gathered on Monday in Nazran, the main city in the south Russian republic of Ingushetia, to protest against the alleged murder of a local journalist and opposition activist by police. Magomed

The recent standoff in South Ossetia and its consequences have taken their toll on Russia and its policies - the country is now being guided by the desire to compensate for its complexes in the face of the international community.

Russia's representatives made defiant statements throughout the day on Monday, as EU leaders held an emergency summit in Brussels to define the EU's attitude toward Russia's recognition of the separatist territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which are legally still

More than 350 people from 16 foreign countries registered themselves for the participation in the fishery forum.

A U.S. vessel, involved in delivering aid to Georgia, visited the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol, used by Russia's Black Sea Fleet on September 1.

Russia's Black Sea Fleet may eventually use the Abkhazian port of Sukhumi as a naval base, former fleet commander said on Friday.

Russia's Black Sea Fleet is capable of destroying NATO's naval strike group currently deployed in the sea within 20 minutes, a former fleet commander said on Friday.

Burke, a friend of Norwood's who interviewed her extensively in the years leading up to her death in 2005. An historian who specialises in eastern European political emigration, Burke first met Norwood in 1997, when he was researching the work

Russian Athletics News. Oksana Udmurtova won the women's triple jump at the Meeting Citta di Padova setting a meeting record of 14.85m. Tatyana Lebedeva placed second with 14.77m, and Anna Pyatykh was third with 14.74m